ArticleScientific reports2019
Association of Dog and Cat Ownership with Incident Frailty among Community-Dwelling Elderly Japanese.
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- Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the effects of human-animal interactions on health and well-being of older adults: an umbrella review.BMC geriatrics · 2026Pooled it
- Pet ownership, loneliness, and social isolation: a systematic review.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2022Pooled it
- Investigating the Potential Protective Effect of Dog Ownership on Incident Disabling Dementia and Its Cost-Effectiveness.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Association of new dog ownership with physical activity and social contact: the retrospective study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Assessment of Fear of Cancer Recurrence in Patients with Colorectal Cancer and Its Association with Pet Ownership: A Cross-Sectional Study.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025Article
- Association between pet ownership and physical function at discharge in hospitalized older adults: A retrospective observational study.PloS one · 2025Observational
- Investigation of dog ownership and physical activity on weekdays and weekends using longitudinal data from the SOEP Cohort.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Association of attachment with level of physical activity among dog owners: A cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2024Article
- Dog, cat, bird, fish, and other pet ownership and mortality: Evidence from the HILDA cohort.PloS one · 2024Article
- Protective effects of dog ownership against the onset of disabling dementia in older community-dwelling Japanese: A longitudinal study.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Pet ownership-related differences in medical and long-term care costs among community-dwelling older Japanese.PloS one · 2023Article
- Pet Ownership and Maintenance of Physical Function in Older Adults-Evidence From the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA).Innovation in aging · 2023Article
- Leisure Activities, Genetic Risk, and Frailty: Evidence from the Chinese Adults Aged 80 Years or Older.Gerontology · 2023Article
- Social determinants of health and disease in companion dogs: a cohort study from the Dog Aging Project.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2023Article
- Examining human-animal interactions and their effect on multidimensional frailty in later life: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Pet ownership and survival of European older adults.European journal of ageing · 2022Article
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- Evidence that dog ownership protects against the onset of disability in an older community-dwelling Japanese population.PloS one · 2022Article
- Dog Walking and the Social Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Loneliness in Older Adults.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Association between Experience of Pet Ownership and Psychological Health among Socially Isolated and Non-Isolated Older Adults.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
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Abstract
Accumulating evidence from studies of human-animal interaction highlights the physiological, psychological, and social benefits for older owners of dogs and cats. This longitudinal study examined whether experience of dog/cat ownership protects against incident frailty in a population of community-dwelling older Japanese. Among 7881 non-frail community-dwelling adults aged 65 years or older who completed a mail survey in 2016, 6,197 (mean [SD] age, 73.6 [5.3] years; 53.6% women) were reevaluated in a 2018 follow-up survey. Frailty was assessed with the Kaigo-Yobo Checklist. Incident frailty was defined as a score of four or higher in the follow-up survey. Overall, 870 (14.0%) were current dog/cat owners, 1878 (30.3%) were past owners and 3449 (55.7%) were never owners. During the 2-year follow-up period, 918 (14.8%) developed incident frailty. Mixed-effects logistic regression models showed that the odds ratio for incident frailty among dog/cat owners, as compared with never owners, current owners were 0.87 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.69-1.09) and past owner were 0.84 (0.71-0.98), after controlling for important confounders at baseline. In stratified analysis, the risk of incident frailty was lower for past dog owners than for cat owners. Longer experience of caring for a dog requires physical activity and increases time outdoors spent dog walking and thus may have an important role in maintaining physical and social function and reducing frailty risk among older adults.
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